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TIL there is a chinese village called Dafen that account for 60% of global production of replica oil paintings.

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p8JwO TIL despite failing to find Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, the search effort produced the most detailed underwater map ever created
XEnyQ TIL: Raccoons are not native to Germany. They were brought there in the 1920s for their pelts. During World War II, an Allied bomb hit a raccoon farm wall, allowing a dozen or so to escape. Today, German cities are being overrun by millions of raccoons!
o5QY TIL O'Hare airport is named after an American fighter pilot who was the lone defender during a attack on his carrier, then was killed leading the first night defense against a Kamikaze attack. Two years earlier, his own father was murdered for being the only man willing to testify against Al Capone.
MJZB TIL that Nirvana purposely hired a bad video director, Sam Bayer, so that the music video for Smells Like Teen Spirit would turn out to be rough and ‘not corporate’ like. But the video was so well received that it gave the band, along with MTV, major corporate success.
p8KZ8 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger had saved a man from drowning while vacationing in Hawaii in 2004.